The Hall also includes the founder of the Giants, Tim Mara, and his son Wellington Mara, who likewise spent their entire decades-long football careers with the As previously stated, for CFL stars, there is a corresponding Canadian Football Hall of Fame; only one player, Warren Moon, and two coaches, Bud Grant and Marv Levy, are enshrined in both halls. Hall Of Fame Omnisport spoke with five former NFL quarterbacks Ty Detmer, Mark Brunell, Matt Hasselbeck, Aaron Brooks and Craig Nall all of whom spent time as a backup to Favre in Green Bay. Pro Football Reference Hall of Fame Monitor, Frequently Asked Questions about the NFL and Football, Pro-Football-Reference.com Blog and Articles, Subscribe to Stathead Football: Get your first month FREE. Why he's No. Van Brocklin split time with fellow Hall of Famer Bob Waterfield for his first four years in the league. The first quarterback to win three Super Bowls before his 30th birthday, Aikman is also one of just four starting quarterbacks to own at least three Super Bowl rings. Warner had a similarly magical run with the Cardinals in 2008, as Arizona advanced to its first-ever Super Bowl. His 42 picks in 1962 remain the most in AFL/NFL history. The list of semifinalists for the modern-era can be expected around late-November, followed by the finalist a month later and assuming the league maintains tradition -- the official class is announced at the NFL Honors, typically held the night before the Super Bowl. Why he's No. Waterfield, a 1965 Hall of Fame inductee, only played eight seasons in the NFL. Key stats:1961 AFL MVP; 3-time AFL champion. Brady went 6-for-9 in the Super Bowl with the New England Patriots, before taking his talents to Tampa Bay and delivering a Super Bowl in his first year with the Buccaneers. His Bills teams from 1990-1993 infamously lost four consecutive Super Bowls. It was on March 16 when Rodgers first announced where he would be headed next. His 107.5 passer rating was more than 20 points higher than any other player had ever recorded. Hall of Fame inductees played college football [8] Three players, Red Grange, Ray Flaherty, Mike Michalske, played a portion of their career in the first American Football League from 1926. As of 2022, four players have contributed to AFL I, one to AFL II, one to AFL III, three to the American Association, three to the Arena Football League, one to the Indoor Football League, eleven to the Canadian Football League, four to the World Football League, seven to the United States Football League, two to the Continental Football League, two for NFL Europe, one for the 1960s United Football League, one for Western Pennsylvania Professional Football Circuit, and eleven played for independent teams (several of which played in the NFL at some point). 164 overall pick (via a trade with the San Francisco 49ers). Looking ahead, the 2023 Hall of Fame class is already well underway. Of the 15 finalists in 2022, eight collected a gold jacket. He also threw two fourth-quarter touchdown passes in the Chargers' 1982 playoff win over Pittsburgh, which served as the last home playoff game for the remaining members of the Steelers' 1970s dynasty. 4. JOE MONTANA
Class of 2000
1979-1992 San Francisco 49ers, 1993-1994 Kansas City Chiefs

A master of come-from-behind victories. The 2022 NFL Hall of Fame class included Tony Boselli, Cliff Branch, LeRoy Butler, Art McNally, Sam Mills, Richard Seymour, Dick Vermeil and Bryant Young. Young was downright dominant in Super Bowl XXIX, as he threw a Super Bowl record six touchdowns against the Chargers. In 1963, the Pro Football Hall of Fame was created to honor the history of professional American football and the individuals who have greatly influenced it. Since the charter induction class of 1963, 22 individuals who have played, coached, or held an administrative position for the Lions have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Full list, including undrafted players, LB Barrett's 2-year-old daughter drowns in pool, Deion 'ashamed' after only 1 HBCU player drafted, Sources: NFL eyes May 11 to release schedule, Teams set NFL record with 43 trades during draft, Jets coach Saleh: Rodgers making 'presence felt', Cowboys scout emotional as team drafts his son, Rams use 'Mr. The MVP of Super Bowl VI, he led the NFL in passing four times. Along with helping popularize the NFL (and specifically the quarterback position), Staubach was the first quarterback to thrive while playing primarily out of the shotgun. Jake Plummer. A score of 100 is around the average modern-era inductee. Terrell Owens played one season of professional football in the Indoor Football League and, after his induction, is playing in Fan Controlled Football. 23: A gifted passer, Van Brocklin's 73-yard touchdown pass to Tom Fears lifted the Rams to a 24-17 win over the Browns in the 1951 title game. He scored six points (each of them coming as the Rams' kicker) during the team's 24-17 win over the Browns in the '51 Championship Game. : #NFL100 Greatest Characters on @NFLNetwork pic.twitter.com/m18UPqWiHm. Key stats:Super Bowl IV MVP; 3-time AFL champion; 7-time AFL leader in completion percentage; 4-time AFL leader in TD passes. Blanda was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1981. A first-round pick in the 2005 NFL Draft, Rodgers spent three seasons backing up Brett Favre, who after each of those seasons pondered retirement before eventually deciding to come back for at least one more year. Key stats: 5-time NFL champion; back-to-back Super Bowl champion; 2-time Super Bowl MVP; 1966 MVP, Why he's No. Hall of Fame Key stats:4-time NFL leader in passing yards; 2-time NFL leader in TD passes; 255 career TD passes were second-most in league history at time of retirement; 32,224 passing yards were third-highest in league history upon retirement. Again for the Arena Football League, there is also a corresponding Arena Football Hall of Fame; similarly, one player, Kurt Warner, has been enshrined into both halls. Dont be surprised to see several of the finalists from 2022 back on the ballot this year. His 290 touchdowns were 41 more than anyone else, his 40,239 yards were nearly 7,000 more than anyone else, and his attempts and completions far out shined any other passer who had played to that point. That is something thats only happened twice since 2000, in 2018 and 2021. 12: Starr played an integral role in the Packers' 1960s dynasty. Y.A. One player (Kurt Warner) and one owner (Pat Bowlen) made significant contributions in the Arena Football League; Warner and Art McNally are also the only NFL Europe/World League alumni in the Hall. Those five quarterbacks Kurt Warner, Benny Friedman, Fran Tarkenton, Y.A. TROY AIKMAN
Class of 2006
1989-2000 Dallas Cowboys

With 90 wins in the 1990s, Aikman became the winningest startign quarterback of any decade in NFL history. Just as the Packers decided way back in 2008 that they had had their fill of the Favre era and would move onto Rodgers, they are now doing the same with Rodgers himself and moving onto Jordan Love, whom they selected in the first round of the draft three years ago. He wasn't a bad runner either, gaining nearly 1,000 yards on the ground over his career. He also attempted 1,300 more passes and completed 800 more passes than anyone else. The Minnesota Vikings select BYU Cougars quarterback Jaren Hall in Round 5 of the 2023 NFL Draft with the No. New York sent this year's pick No. His career passer rating of 75.0 was third all time. His 137 touchdowns and 14,686 yards were second only to Sammy Baugh. Stabler was also extremely accurate for his time; his 66.7 completion percentage in 1976 was the second-best total in league history at the time. QB Up and Down arrows will open main level menus and toggle through sub tier links. The Oilers went to the playoffs seven times with Moon, but never advanced even to the AFC Championship. The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. (Aikman was also a great quarterback in his own right, which we'll get to momentarily. A backup for most of his career, Gannon came into his own Owens has also played in the Fan Controlled Football since 2022, five years after his enshrinement into the Hall. Free shipping for many products! The 2020 first-round pick QB is entering the fourth season of his rookie deal, and Green Bay has until May 1 to decide whether or not to guarantee his $20.3 million, fully-guaranteed fifth-year option for 2024. WebInductees. A quarterback who was way ahead of his time, Unitas led Baltimore in the first overtime playoff game in NFL history, a 23-17 win over the Giants in the 1958 NFL Championship Game. After playing backup to Craig Morton for two years, he promptly lead the Cowboys to a Super Bowl title in 1971, his first season as a starter. Four players, Larry Csonka, Leroy Kelly, Don Maynard, and Paul Warfield, played a portion of their career in the short-lived World Football League. Griese threw for 2,005 yards and 15 touchdowns his rookie year. SONNY JURGENSEN
Class of 1983. Automatic Otto, as Graham was known, only played 10 seasons of professional football. Mark Craig has covered college or pro football for 27 of his 31 years as a sports writer at the Canton (Ohio) Repository (1987-99) and Star Tribune. Derek Carr was the first QB domino to fall, as the former Raider signed a reported four-year deal with the New Orleans Saints. Broadway Joe finished his 13-year career with over 27,000 yards, 173 TDs and 220 interceptions. Automatic Otto, as Graham was known, only played 10 seasons of professional football. Looking ahead, the 2023 Hall of Fame class is already well underway. Moon played in Canada until he finally broke into the NFL at age 28. His 23 playoff games played is second only to Brett Favre. The curse still holds strong 53 years later. When he wasn't handing the ball to Emmitt Smith, he was dissecting defenses with deadly accurate passes. CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. 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He led the NFL in yards twice, touchdowns once and interceptions twice. See which NFL quarterbacks In the '71 playoffs, he threw for 246 yards and a touchdown against Miami's fabled "No Name" defense in the longest game in NFL history. 8: Baugh's impact on the NFL goes beyond numbers. Cleveland Browns Hall of Famers: The Complete List Pro Football Hall of Fame Irrelevant' pick on Toledo's Johnson, Chargers go all-in on TCU with Duggan pick in 7th, NFL Nation sizes up all 259 draft selections. Slingin' Sammy took the Redskins to five championship games, winning two. The Chicago Bears are in second place with four Hall-of-Fame quarterbacks. Six players or coaches who spent part of their careers in the short-lived United States Football League (USFL) have been inducted. DeMarcus Ware, a newly elected member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2023, is the bell cow of the bunch. [1] The Lions organization are the National Football League's (NFL's) 5th oldest franchise[2] and compete in the NFL as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) North division. 1: Montana was widely considered the greatest quarterback in league annals prior to Tom Brady's legendary run. Here is a list of all of the late-round draft picks who have made it into the Pro Football Hall of Fame starting, with Round 22 all the way to Round 7. Had he not been a Pro Bowl caliber kicker for two decades, he probably wouldn't have made the HoF. The list will include only QBs that have been inducted into the Hall of Fame or will be in 2010, since that class is already known. He totaled 43,040 passed yards and threw 254 touchdowns. Rodgers and Favre were even traded to the exact same team, on the exact same timeline with respect to when their successor was drafted. Owner Woody Johnson tweeted a rhetorical, happy questions to Jets Nation shortly after the deal was confirmed: Rodgers' career in Green Bay began in much the same way as it ended -- with a controversy surrounding the future of a franchise legend. section: | slug: ranking-every-nfl-hall-of-fame-quarterback-peyton-manning-joe-montana-johnny-unitas-vie-for-top-spot | sport: football | route: article_single.us | Key stats: 3-time MVP; 3-time NFL champion; Super Bowl V champion; first QB to reach 40,000-career passing yards. After a brief retirement after spending most of his 10-year NFL career as a kicker and backup quarterback, Blanda returned to pro football in 1960 with the AFL's Oilers. He is six sacks from passing Hall of Fame defensive end Michael Strahan and moving into the top five all-time. Calvin Johnson, wide receiver for the Lions. Website design & development by americaneagle.com copyright 2021 Pro Football hall of fame all rights reserved, Enshrinement Week Powered by Johnson Controls, Black College Football Hall of Fame Classic. 13: Aikman was the quiet engine of one of the most powerful offenses in league history. Each entry includes the year of induction (i.e., "class"), position(s) played, team(s) each was associated with, and tenures with each team. Waterfield split time with Van Brocklin during the Rams' second championship run in 1951. The second American Football League from 1936 only has one Hall of Fame member who has played in this league, Ken Strong; Strong is also one of two Hall of Famers (the other being Sid Luckman) to play in the American Association. After 18 years with the Green Bay Packers, future Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers has been traded to the New York Jets, CBS Sports NFL Insider Jonathan Jones reports. WebList of Detroit Lions in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. 4: Favre wore No. Why he's No. 2884. NORM VAN BROCKLIN
Class of 1971
1949-1957 Los Angeles Rams, 1958-1960 Philadelphia Eagles

Van Brocklin still holds the NFL record for passing yards in a game (554). His career passer rating was 13th all time upon his retirement. Despite his success, the Lions traded the hard-charging quarterback to Pittsburgh during the 1958 season. Bradsahw, after an abysmal start to his career, became the first QB to win four Super Bowls. Aikman may have been able to play for longer had he not been prone to concussions, suffering a half dozen or more during his career. He has been to nine Pro Bowls and won the 1984 NFL MVP. In the hours after news broke of Dawsons passing, Mahomes extended his condolences to Dawsons family and paid his respects to the legend, whose impact on Kansas City will live on forever.. He started 19 playoff games, more than every QB except for Elway, Montana and Favre. Five players played some at least one year in the Ohio League, the predecessor to the NFL. WARREN MOON
Class of 2006
1984-1993 Houston Oilers, 1994-1996 Minnesota Vikings, 1997-1998 Seattle Seahawks, 1999-2000 Kansas City Chiefs

Moon holds the record for quarterbacks with eight straight Pro Bowl selection (1988-1995). Both the Packers and Jets can now breathe a sigh of relief since they both received what they wanted in an exchange that almost didn't happen. All Rights Reserved. With three more additions last weekend, the Cowboys officially recognize 20 former players/coaches and contributors as members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Hall He also had a hand in some of the most famous plays in league history. He's the Rock n' Roll athlete." Of the 23 quarterbacks currently in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, an amazing six of them have their roots right in Western Pa. - George Blanda (Youngwood, Pa.), Johnny Unitas (Pittsburgh), Joe Namath (Beaver Falls, Pa.), Joe Montana (New Eagle, Pa.), Dan Marino (Pittsburgh) and Jim Kelly (Pittsburgh/East Brady, Pa.). Below is our complete list of the 721 NFL quarterbacks, divided up by state with their high school and NFL teams (Hall of Famers are in bold). However, it wasn't until his last two years in the league that he was able to hoist the Lombardi trophy. "Classic drop-back passer. Steelers Hall of Fame wide receivers Lynn Swann (left) and John Stallworth were among the most dynamic receiving duos in NFL history. Key stats: 1984 MVP; retired as NFL's all-time leader in career passing yards 6-keys: media/spln/nfl/reg/free/stories, at 15 pick and a 2023 fifth round pick (No. Elway was also a pretty good runner with 3,400 yards and 33 TDs on the ground. 26:Jurgensen started and ended his career as a backup. His career completions and attempts were the best of all time by 800 and 1,100, respectively. The 2020 first-round pick QB is entering the fourth season of his rookie deal, and Green Bay has until May 1 to decide whether or not to guarantee his $20.3 million, I felt like it would get done all along, but there were times you had to be careful with how you proceeded going forward.".